Skype - Internet Phone Service
Skype was founded in 2003. It’s based in Luxembourg, with
offices in Europe, the US and Asia. It’s owned by an investor
group led by Silver Lake and which includes eBay Inc, Joltid Limited
and Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the Canada
Pension Plan Investment Board and Andreessen Horowitz.
Responsible for 8% of global international calling minutes, and with
its users making 3.1 billion minutes of calls to landlines and mobiles
in the third quarter of 2009, Skype is a leading global internet
communications company. And of course, Skype-to-Skype voice and video
calls are completely free. In the third quarter of 2009, Skype users
made 27.7 billion minutes of Skype-to-Skype calls, and over a third of
these were video calls.
Skype’s buzzing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, worldwide. At peak
times, there are up to 20 million people online. What’s most
important, however, is what Skype can do. Voice and video calling, IM
and SMS are now available on a wide range of operating systems and
mobile devices. They connect business colleagues, saving them time and
money and allowing them to stay ahead of the competition. And they help
keep friends and families together, wherever they are in the world.
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